Wasatch Conditions 13/14

[icelanticskier]

more airbags=more incidences

rog

[the Cock]

Oh look!!

Rog continues to cunt.
Ski the East!!!

[Slaag Master]

thou shalt not cunt regional threads where thou dost not reside!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thou shalt not drag thy petty ass personal squabbles into public forums!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thou shalt STFU and ski so that thy stoke exceeds thy bloody cunt dribbles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[smuggs]

One could easily argue that avalanche forcast websites create more avalanches just as easily as an airbag.

I won't but you could

[sfotex]

Gotta wonder about the airbag aspect of this one thought. This person drops some $$ on an airbag, then proceeds to go ski into a terrain trap on a suspect slope/snowpack with their hand on the trigger, while their photographer friend stood below with no beacon/rescue gear....This wasn't some clueless high school kid that couldn't afford a lift ticket...

[skifishbum]

no it was an athelete and protagrapher
or wanna b
shit tgr gave a bunch of gearless skittle thugs
100k for skiing the same shit

[Skidog]

Gotta wonder about the airbag aspect of this one thought. This person drops some $$ on an airbag, then proceeds to go ski into a terrain trap on a suspect slope/snowpack with their hand on the trigger, while their photographer friend stood below with no beacon/rescue gear....This wasn't some clueless high school kid that couldn't afford a lift ticket...

Was thinking something about it looked a bit funny...almost like the skier, who was cruising into that slope, almost intentionally pushed a deep turn in a spot that might force it to slide.

interesting spin on it sfotex. I don't know that id ever risk getting buried for a "Cool shot", or a few bucks, but i got kids so....

Glad all involved are ok and noone got hurt in the slide or rescue efforts.

[The Gnarwhale]

They werent "avalanche hunting" for an airbag shot, just being dumbasses. The "funny looking" turn is just an attempted one-turn-wonder shot on a convexity. Contrived shooting always looks goofy on video. Also, getting fully buried despite airbag deployment doesn't make for a great sales backstory in an ad anyway. I'll be curious to see whether those photo get published.

From a brief conversation with athlete #2 on the scene, I gather there was no conversation about stability prior to the accident. It's a spot all of them had skied/shot many times before and they percieved the hazard to be much lower than is obviously was/is. Sounds like the athletes were maybe also eager to please the photographer, who has enough skill and clout that working with him can open sponsorship doors.

I'm curious whether the older crown and debris is visible from where the photog was standing. I dont think involvement in an avalanche shouldnt carry a stigma of shame, but this accident seems like it should have been so forseeable that I'd be pretty embarassed if it were me.

[Christopher3000]

Condolences to the involved. We all make mistakes, and we all make mistakes we know we shouldn't have made.

But...ski gear and associated media...what a bizzare industry/pursuit.

[Johnny Deep]

FYI: It's important to keep your dumbass alive so yous' can ski tomorrow.

That spot slides a lot.

[DoWork]

thou shalt not cunt regional threads where thou dost not reside!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thou shalt not drag thy petty ass personal squabbles into public forums!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thou shalt STFU and ski so that thy stoke exceeds thy bloody cunt dribbles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If there was a TGR list of commandments, I really hope this would be the first three.

[icelanticskier]

YA BUT DW, YOU YERSELF ARE BREAKING ONE OF THE ROOLZ^^^^^. YOU DO NOT RESIDE THERE, SO NO CUNTING, mmmkay?

the Wasatch trannies just love they're tight wad roolz........

rog

[JKnight]

Rog, you don't even come visit. I think you're just a coward!

[icelanticskier]

oh i'll be back!

rog

[F#*k you cat]

^^ prove it. ^^ USA bowl is calling you.

so is the circuit city slough. might want to have a spotter for that rad line brah.

[Lone Star]

Sounds like the athletes were maybe also eager to please the photographer, who has enough skill and clout that working with him can open sponsorship doors.

Spot on post.

Dude deserves a callout and beatdown for calling himself a pro and putting himself and his athletes into a situation like that. some of the stuff "pro" photographers say to goad skiers into questionable lines is just appalling. there's enough radness in the powder ski jibbin huckin world to not have to put your friends and subjects into more jeopardy just to get the shot.

[Brad Davis]

UDOT will be sighting in artillery in Provo Canyon on Dec.11. Expect 15min. intermittent road closures on US189 from 11am-1pm. Ice climbing is closed on Dec.11 until 1pm in central Provo Canyon, including Bridal Veil Falls. Please stay clear of the area.

-Brad

[DoWork]

YOU DO NOT RESIDE THERE

Dooood. Rub it in. I have recurring nightmares of the heady brews in Telee's guest fridge taunting me and 20 mins in the car only gets me to Blanford.


I would never cunt this thread. 'Satch tribe abides!!!

[teleee]

Dooood. Rub it in. I have recurring nightmares of the heady brews in Telee's guest fridge taunting me and 20 mins in the car only gets me to Blanford.


I would never cunt this thread. 'Satch tribe abides!!!

Dude, the beer fridge is stocked and awaiting your presence.

[The Gnarwhale]

There's enough radness in the powder ski jibbin huckin world to not have to put your friends and subjects into more jeopardy just to get the shot.

Thanks. That's a point I think about a lot when I'm taking pictures. I feel like when I'm out shooting less-experienced skiers, I've got the "expert halo" burden to think about but also a "photog halo" where someone will do something for the camera that they wouldnt do otherwise. Kind of like kodak courage but amplified.

I've skied with and shot pics of peoeple I taught avy classes to a year or two ago. It's gotta feel weird for them to call me out like "Yo, I'm not into skiing that" when it's much easier to rationalize that their doubts are unfounded. The best solution is to adapt the talk some mountain guides give their clients that's along the lines of "I've been doing this for a long time, but I also miss clues and make mistakes. Every pair of eyes is out here is valuable and we need to collaborate if we're going to blah,blah,blah" Plus I usually have more fun and get more shots i like by asking "what's your line? okay,sounds good. I'm going to go over there and see if it's cool angle on where you're talking about"

I also like to ask myself "why are we going to this spot?" If it's just because it might look siiiiccck even though everything else about that spot is dodgy, it's time to reconsider.

[happytimefunbox]

Nice day to be out with a maggot, lots of good discussion in the skinner about grizzly. Its warmed up a bit but still below freezing so the turns were surprisingly good for how thin the snow was . Headed to a nne facing meadowed bowl in bcc around 9400 ft and found a thin and complex snowpack in that wind sheltered area . It had a buried and intact hoar layer under 35 cm of storm snow from the weekend which was very reactive going on isolation in the shade and 4 to 6 from the elbow in the sun. Didn't have much energy or propagate far but had beautiful perfect shears. Under that there was a 30 cm fist finger fist sandwich of shit and facets to the ground. We dialed it back a bit after an in depth safety assessment. Neither of us have an airbag so it was hard to decide who went first...

I'll try to get a pic or two up later when I can get on a real computer.

Buried hoars



#lotsoffilters



Quality Athlete



Could of fit at least 30 wiggles here but instead crossed tracks and had fun






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[Bud Green]

oh i'll be back!

Please reconsider.

[icelanticskier]

Please reconsider.

eh, that place went to shit when I left. hillsides marked by mindless pivot skids of meh. no order. crossed tracks. 3 skinners where there should be one.

you'll know when the time comes

rog

[skifishbum]

Nice day to be out with a maggot, lots of good discussion in the skinner about grizzly. Its warmed up a bit but still below freezing so the turns were surprisingly good for how thin the snow was . Headed to a nne facing meadowed bowl in bcc around 9400 ft and found a thin and complex snowpack in that wind sheltered area . It had a buried and intact hoar layer under 35 cm of storm snow from the weekend which was very reactive going on isolation in the shade and 4 to 6 from the elbow in the sun. Didn't have much energy or propagate far but had beautiful perfect shears. Under that there was a 30 cm fist finger fist sandwich of shit and facets to the ground. We dialed it back a bit after an in depth safety assessment. Neither of us have an airbag so it was hard to decide who went first...

I'll try to get a pic or two up later when I can get on a real computer.

Buried hoars



#lotsoffilters



Quality Athlete



Could of fit at least 30 wiggles here but instead crossed tracks and had fun






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blessed are those who share the hokies pokies w/ maggots
only ob and stoke on the page
spent the last couple morns pokin round a dope basin away from the "kickin and stompin cornices all day" fucktards who should know better and set better examples
http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanches/18940
and wanna be pro hoes lookin for facial money shots and happy endings despite being shit upon by mother nature
in this hood

Didn't observe a whole lot of obvious red flag instablities tues decent hasty bonding and the only cracking was atop the ridge were the winds had formed a few slabs
johny wasatch gits sum

kinda glad we didn't bother quantifying much that day
cause i can't say ct low single diggies gave me a lot of stability confidence
ect failin before complete iso q1 on a bed of buried surface hoar

aint what i was hopin to find
basal depth whores were a bit more promisin lookin if ya needed a well it aint all fucked flag
gonna haz to find your athletic ass a helmet spanser bro

nice form though

more obs
sun gods rainbows

smiling seafoam clad chicas on a cold ass skinner

fugly bummages

always felt the best part of every tour aside from what ole river rat buzz holmstrom calls the "doin of the thing"
is returning to the trailhead
and sometimes the simplest ob is the one that has the most meaning in whatcha do and why ya keep doin it

[brutah]

^^^^
now that's how its fuckin' done right there kiddos
skifishbum for the win
keep safe in the 'satch all ye armchair qb's and those actual skiers down there